Co-Designing Infrastructures: Community Collaboration for Liveable Cities (Engaging Communities in City-Making) - Softcover

Bell, Sarah; Johnson, Charlotte; Austen, Kat; Moore, Gemma; Teh, Tse-Hui

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800082231 ISBN 13: 9781800082236

Publisher: UCL Press, 2023

Synopsis

The story of a research programme that put the power of engineering into the hands of community groups, to create bottom-up solutions to global crises. The book documents four London projects that co-designed solutions to e.g. air pollution and water management. It includes voices of community collaborators; their frustrations and aspirations.

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About the Authors

Sarah Bell is City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Professor in Environmental Engineering at University College London (UCL). She is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management. Her research addresses urban resilience and sustainability, with particular expertise in water and community engagement with infrastructure. In 2014-2020 she was the Director of the Engineering Exchange at UCL, a programme to support partnerships between engineering and built environment researchers and local communities in London.

Charlotte Johnson is Head of Research Programmes at the Centre for Sustainable Energy and a Senior Research Fellow at UCL. She researches urban environmental transitions with a particular focus on inclusion and social justice. She uses participatory methods and draws on theories from Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies to analyse the social relations that are produced through infrastructural change.

Kat Austen is a person. Her artistic practice is underpinned by extensive research and theory and driven by a motivation to explore how to move towards a more socially and environmentally just future. With expertise in transdisciplinary methods, participatory research and co-creation, Austen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, artist-in-residence at UCL Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences and lectures at UCL Bachelor’s in Art and Science. She runs Studio Austen in Berlin.

Gemma Moore is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering. She is an applied social researcher who has experience of working on activities that bridge research, evaluation and engagement. Her research interests focus upon knowledge production, participation, social sustainability and health and wellbeing, particularly understanding the relationships between people, their local environment and decision-making processes.

Tse-Hui Teh is a lecturer in urban design and planning at the Bartlett School of Planning. Her research is focussed on how collectives of people, things and other species can coevolve so that people can live in sustainable ecosystems. She uses interviews, discussion groups, workshops and document analysis in combination with design and co-design to understand how the relationships between people, things and other species have changed and are likely to change in the future. Her current projects look at water reuse, water quality, vacuum flush and dry toilets.

Edition details

• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800082231
• ISBN 13: 9781800082236
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236